We are an independent producer of premium quality newsprint operating a single site in a large global Forest Products Industry. We produce 400,000 tonnes per annum of newsprint which is 1% of the total world production of nearly 40 million tonnes and 4% of European production of 9.2 million tonnes per annum. Our turnover is about £130 million per annum and we achieve a high level of output with production of over 1,000 tonnes per employee.
We process more than 500,000 tonnes of recovered Newspapers and Magazines each year, combusting the process residue from the paper recycling process to produce a contribution to the steam and electricity needed by the mill. Increasingly we are recycling the ash from combustion into other products and we also recycle over 90% of the water used in the process.
The mill plans to reduce our own process residues generated in the mill to less than 10,000 tonnes per annum which will be a notable achievement within the recycling industry.